Word: guestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Operators, who were instructed to stay with the call until it had been relayed to the police or fire department, logged 48 emergency calls in the first three days. A motel owner rushed to a pay booth to report that a guest had left without paying his parking fee; teen-agers were fighting in a street; suspected robbers were seen breaking into a store; and one, fire was spotted...
...guests who heard the traditional "What God has joined together let no man put asunder" constituted one of the most distinguished guest lists in U.S. marital history. They included all the members of the Cabinet, the Supreme Court Justices and leaders of Congress, plus a liberal sprinkling of the merely wealthy and famous. But there was also a goodly number of quite ordinary citizens from Texas and Illinois, a particularly fitting assortment for the marriage of the President's daughter to a nonEstablishment young...
...there is anything the Irish admire more than a first-class horseman, it's a chap with a tongue touched with blarney. And to have both in the same man, now there's a fine ambassador for the Americans to be sending. Of course, Raymond Guest, 58, noted Virginia horse breeder and financier, did warn them when he arrived last year that he "intended to be the kind of American you would like to see in your country." So it was no surprise when he showed up at the Dublin Horse Show astride his eight-year-old gelding...
Union Labels. As for the wedding, the Johnsons insisted at the beginning that it would be a family affair, the guest list restricted to the comparatively near and dear, the number held well below 1,000, which is about S.R.O. capacity at the White House. Though the National Shrine can accommodate 3,500, the Johnsons insisted that all their guests be invited to the reception as well as the ceremony. As the pre-wedding activities escalated, the White House requested that some of the parties, showers and receptions for the bride be canceled because the "wedding was becoming more...
Some gaseous remains survive long after. In A.D. 1054, Chinese astrologers recorded a brilliant "guest star" supernova that suddenly exploded one night in the constellation Taurus. Located near the tip of the left horn, the star remained visible even during bright daylight. This same supernova's remains can be seen today as the Crab nebula, a diffuse, glowing gas cloud 3,500 light years away, which continues to expand at 800 miles per second...